[bookport] Re: Does book port support undo

  • From: "Lou Kolb" <loukolb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 19:23:23 -0400

I assume you guys mean the 3 key and not the 2 key.  The 2 key when held
down gives you the time.  Lou
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony" <anthony.gough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 12:27 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Does book port support undo


> I do know the key I pressed and I have read the manual, I accidentally
held
> down the 2 key for too long.  As for the book port constantly keeping
track
> of where it is I would assume it does that anyway because it can resume
from
> where it left off.  I appreciate the bookport doesn't have huge processing
> power but I am sure the position could be stored in say a couple of bytes,
> It must have pointers to where it is in a file or how does it function?  I
> am sorry but I don't agree that it would introduce a huge processing
> overhead, I remember the days when people wrote quite complex programs on
8
> bit home computers with small amounts of memory.  I was just putting it
> forward as an idea as on my plextalk talking book machine I find undo
useful
> at times.
>
> Anthony
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 3:28 PM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: Does book port support undo
>
>
> >I seriously doubt that this is very practical and it would not be trivial
> >to
> > implement. It would mean that the Book Port firmware would constantly
have
> > to be monitoring your position in the document, recording that location
> > somewhere, then redoing the whole thing after you complete some defined
> > boundary (word, sentence, paragraph, page). The processing overhead
would
> > be
> > very extreme. Undoing a move is nothing at all like undoing a change in
> > Microsoft Word or something similar on a desktop computer (which has a
> > vastly more powerful microprocessor). Also, in the two years that I've
> > owned
> > a Book Port, this is the first time I've heard this problem. When you
say
> > that you held down "a key," that seems to imply that you haven't read
the
> > manual, since you'd know which key you held down. The 1 key held down
for
> > one beep takes you to the beginning of the file; the 2 key held down for
> > one
> > beep takes you to the end of the file.
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Anthony" <anthony.gough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 9:59 AM
> > Subject: [bookport] Re: Does book port support undo
> >
> >
> > Any chance of adding undo in a future firmware update?  While power move
> > etc
> > are ok it is not like hitting one or two keys and bookport putting you
> > back
> > where you were.  I don't suppose it would be a hugely difficult feature
to
> > implement and I am sure many users would find it of use.
> >
> > Anthony
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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